Agent swarms and the new model economics · Cursor
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
Blog / research Earlier this year, we ran experiments to test the limits of scaling agents to cooperate toward a goal. Our hypothesis was that this would unlock a new tier of task scale and complexity. The flagship project was a long-running swarm building a web browser from scratch . It succeeded as a proof of concept, but fell far short of polished software. That work was deliberately empirical. We started from a blank canvas and hill-climbed toward a stable, effective system . Since then, our goal has been to understand the agent swarm well enough to engineer it deliberately. To test that p
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